World-Wide Web (Presumably from "
spam", "index")
word spamming.
"Spamdexing has come a long way from the halcyon days of the summer of 1995. Back then, all one needed to do was add the word 'sex' a thousand times at the end of a Web page to attract attention from the likes of Lycos. The search-engine operators caught on fast" -- Andrew Leonard, Hotwired 1996 (https://packet.com/packet/leonard/96/32/index3a.html).
(1997-04-09)